571 - Scriptnotes Live in LA
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In our first live show since 2019, John and Craig welcome guests Joel Kim Booster (Fire Island), Ike Barinholtz (History of the World, part 2), Megan Ganz (Mythic Quest), and Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). They discuss writing scripted comedy vs. standup, representation, and the difficulties of being the boss.
They’re joined by The Manager We Told You to Fire, who has some choice words for the guys.
Megana asks audience questions on storyboarding, pet peeves, and advice/inspiration for aspiring writers.
Big thanks to our live audience, the staff of Dynasty Typewriter, and everyone at Hollywood Heart for putting the event together.
Links:
- Learn more and donate to Hollywood Heart!
- Joel Kim Booster on Twitter and Instagram
- Ike Barinholtz on Twitter, Instagram, and Celebrity Jeopardy!
- Megan Ganz on Twitter and Instagram
- Aline Brosh McKenna on Twitter and Instagram
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Craig Mazin on Twitter
- John August on Twitter
- John on Instagram
- Outro by Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:24.0 | That was so joity. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, and welcome. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is John August. |
| 0:33.0 | And my name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:35.0 | And this is script notes. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a podcast about what? |
| 0:38.0 | Three, two, three. |
| 0:40.0 | And? |
| 0:41.0 | Honestly, for a second there, I thought maybe none of them |
| 0:46.0 | listened to this song. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh my god, it's so amazing. |
| 0:48.0 | If no one knew what that was. |
| 0:49.0 | Literally no one. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | Jerome on the piano. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you, Jerome. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you, Jerome. |
| 0:54.0 | So what a lot of people may not know is that Jerome is with his |
| 0:57.0 | every week on script notes. |
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